The fallout from a phone hacking scandal that took down the popular News of the World newspaper in England continues to cloud the future of New Corporation CEO Rupert Murdoch.
A UK parliamentary committee have declared the media mogul “unfit” to run his global media empire, which includes Fox News, The New York Post and The Wall Street Journal.
Think he’ll remain as the head of News Corporation? Here are five great cartoons about the future of Rupert Murdoch from some of the world’s top cartoonists…
Loujie / Cagle Cartoons (click to view more cartoons by Loujie)Mike Keefe / Cagle Cartoons (click to view more cartoons by Keefe)Cam Cardow / Ottawa Citizen (click to view more cartoons by Cardow)Tim Eagan / PoliticalCartoons.com (click to view more cartoons by Eagan)John Cole / Scranton Times-Tribune (click to view more cartoons by Cole)
As we celebrate the one year anniversary of the death of Osama bin Laden, critics of the President feel it’s inappropriate for him to take a victory lap. They’re especially miffed at Obama for suggesting that his Republican opponent, Mitt Romney, wouldn’t have taken the same course of action.
John McCain, recently said, “You Know the Thing About Heroes? They Don’t Brag.” Romney, when asked by a reporter if he would have made the call to launch the raid, said “of course” he would have. “Even Jimmy Carter would have given that order.”
Here are a handful of cartoons about Obama’s “bragging rights.”
What do you think? Comment below or drop us a note on our Facebook page…
Daryl Cagle / msnbc.com (click to view more cartoons by Cagle)Pat Bagley / Salt Lake Tribune (click to view more cartoons by Bagley)Osama Hajjaj / Jordan, PoliticalCartoons.com (click to view more cartoons by Osama)Joep Bertrams / The Netherlands, PoliticalCartoons.com (click to view more cartoons by Bertrams)Nate Beeler / Columbus Dispatch (click to view more cartoons by Beeler)
The Secret Service sex scandal continues to hold the interest of readers looking for salacious tales of government employees chartered to protect the president looking for a bit of fun on the side. As a cartoonist, that just means more opportunities to go back to the ink well and come up with more ideas. Here’s my latest, on the media’s obsession with this story…
As a note to any aspiring cartoonists out there, if there’s a sex scandal, and you have to draw someone with their pants down, always draw hearts on their boxers…
My final cartoon is a warning to all the guys out there watching news coverage of the scandal with your wife. Think before you speak…
On this day 37 years ago, Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam, was captured by the People’s Army of Vietnam and the National Liberation Front. The event market the end of the Vietnam War and the start of formal reunification of Vietnam into a communist state.
One of the most famous images of the 20th century is this photo by Dutch journalist Hubert van Es showing Americans trying desperately to secure a seat on one of the last helicopters evacuating people to U.S. Navy ships off the coast of Vietnam.
Cartoonists are visual creatures, so it makes sense that this iconic image of desperation has been used and twisted in a number of cartoons over the years. Here are some examples from our archives…
JD Crowe / Mobile Press-Register (click to view more cartoons by Crowe)Pat Bagley / Salt Lake Tribune (click to view more cartoons by Bagley)Adam Zyglis / Buffalo News (click to view more cartoons by Zyglis)Jimmy Margulies / The Record (click to view more cartoons by Margulies)Rob Tornoe / PoliticalCartoons.com (click to view more cartoons by Tornoe)
Biden Alert! Speaking about the Obama administration’s foreign policy at New York University, Vice President delivered a snicker-worthy line when he said, “I promise you, the president has a big stick.”
The former Delaware senator is known for flubs of the tongue. He also got some laughs when he described Obama’s decisiveness, telling the audience, “This guy’s got a backbone like a ramrod. For real. For real.”
Here are five funny cartoon from our archives about Biden’s tendency to say the wrong thing at the wrong time.
David Fitzsimmons / Arizona Daily Star (click to view more by Fitzsimmons)John Cole / Scranton Times-Tribune (click to view more cartoons by Cole)Jimmy Margulies / The Record (click to view more cartoons by Margulies)R.J. Matson / Roll Call (click to view more cartoons by Matson)Taylor Jones / Cagle Cartoons (click to view more cartoons by Jones)
On Sunday, the Sioux City Journal devoted its entire front page to an anti-bullying editorial following the suicide of a gay teenager earlier this month. In addition to calling on the community to help end this story of abuse, the front page featured a cartoon by Brian Duffy, the former staff cartoonist at the Des Moines Register who self-syndicates his cartoons throughout the state.
Editors take note – this powerful cover has gone viral on the web and even made the rounds on cable news. Maybe you should include more cartoons and illustrations on your front pages
Here’s the top half of the paper. For the full front page, click here.
It’s official – Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich will suspend his presidential campaign next Tuesday.
It’s about time. If it wasn’t desperate enough that Newt Gingrich made Delaware his Waterloo, Newt was completely routed last night by Mitt Romney in all five primaries.
Newt’s campaign has been running on the fumes of $2.50 a gallon gas for a while. Here’s a round-up of cartoons about desperate Newt…
Daryl Cagle / msnbc.com (click to view more cartoons by Cagle)R.J. Matson / St. Louis Post-Dispatch (click to view more cartoons by Matson)Rick McKee / Augusta Chronicle (click to view more cartoons by McKee)Adam Zyglis / Buffalo News (click to view more cartoons by Zyglis)Larry Wright / Cagle Cartoons (click to view more cartoons by Wright)
It’s interesting that Americans tend to disregard presidential elections in other countries, while our foreign counterparts wait with baited breath for Obama and Romney to go after one another.
It’s too bad, because there’s a really interesting election shaping up in France between incumbent president Nicolas Sarkozy and Socialist candidate Francois Hollande. The two came neck and neck in the first round of the country’s presidential election, with the final round between the two set for May 6. Things aren’t looking good for Sarkozy, and if he’s defeated, he’d become the first president in France’s history not to serve two terms.
We have a great stable of foreign cartoonists that have been covering this race, so I thought I’d share five terrific cartoons here on my blog…
Joep Bertrams / The Netherlands, PoliticalCartoons.com (click to view more cartoons by Bertrams)Patrick Chappattee / Switzerland, PoliticalCartoons.com (click to view more cartoons by Chappatte)Petar Pismestrovic / Austria, PoliticalCartoons.com (click to view more cartoons by Pismestrovic)Hajo / The Netherlands, PoliticalCartoons.com (click to view more cartoons by Hajo)Dario Castillejos / Mexico, Politicalcartoons.com (click to view more cartoons by Castillejos)
Happy Earth Day! Each April 22, Earth Day marks the anniversary of what many consider the birth of the modern environmental movement in 1970. The idea came to founder Gaylord Nelson, then a U.S. Senator from Wisconsin, after witnessing the aftermath of the horrific 1969 oil spill in Santa Barbara, California.
Every year around this time, cartoonists weigh in on the fate of the planet, so I thought I’d pull together five terrific cartoons about Earth Day for your environment-loving enjoyment…
R.J. Matson / St. Louis Post-Dispatch (click to view more cartoons by Matson)Adam Zyglis / Buffalo News (click to view more cartoons by Zyglis)Steve Greenberg / PoliticalCartoons.com (click to view more cartoons by Greenberg)Loujie / Cagle Cartoons (click to view more cartoons by Loujie)Tab / PoliticalCartoons.com (click to view more cartoons by Tab)